Popular Culture An Introductory Text

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Description: Popular Culture: An Introductory Text provides the means for a new examination of the different faces of the American character in both its historical and contemporary identities. The text is highlighted by a series of extensive introductions toMore...

Popular Culture: An Introductory Text provides the means for a new examination of the different faces of the American character in both its historical and contemporary identities. The text is highlighted by a series of extensive introductions to various categories of popular culture and by essays that demonstrate how the methods discussed in the introductions can be applied. This volume is an exciting beginning for the study of the materials of everyday life that define our culture and confirm our individual senses of identity.

Getting to Know Us an Introduction to the Study of Popular Culture: What Is This Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of?

&U261E: Taking Popular Culture Seriously

Introduction Taking Popular Culture Seriously

Seeing What We've Said: The Top Ten American Box-Office Hits Taken Seriously

How Much Can You Swallow?

New Legends for Old

The Cabinet of Dr. Seuss

Myths

Introduction Songs of the Unseen Road: Myths, Beliefs and Values in Popular Culture

Four Morality Tales

Culture and Continuity: Three American Myths in the Prints of Currier & Ives

The American Myth of Success: Visions and Revisions

Endless Love Will Keep Us Together: The Myth of Romantic Love and Contemporary Popular Movie Love Themes

Introduction Living in the Material World: The Meaning and Power of Popular Icons

For Whom the Bell Tolled

The Malling of America

Seen through Rose-Tinted Glasses the Barbie Doll in American Society

Stereotypes

Introduction Breaking the Mold: The Meaning and Significance of Stereotypes in Popular Culture

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